Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer, when the approaching war found its ace, H. V. Kaltenborn, in Europe. Now, with his commercial program three times a week and daily breakfast-time and post-dinner broadcasts for CBS, he pockets $900 a week. Tall, well-proportioned and active-looking, Elmer Davis wears grey or pepper-&-salt suits to match his grey hair, looks very un-Elmer-like except for his invariable little black bow ties. Many consider him a dead ringer for handsome Hoosier Paul V. McNutt, but Elmer Davis, turning 50 last week, saw another resemblance. Said he: "Now people think I look more like...
...serving of smörgåsbord was forbidden in Finland to conserve salt fish for the Army...
...hundred ways he was the salt of New England. For years he shouldered two man-sized jobs, with ease and distinction. His courtesy was unfailing, his skepticism healthy. The honesty of the man was never more marked than in his day-to-day product. He scorned the trappings of style that sometimes pass for journalistic brilliance. He wrote to convey information, not for effect. For fifty years his big holiday was the Harvard-Yale boat races, and his Globe story would always come in in some such fashion: "Harvard's crew defeated Yale this afternoon on the Thames by three...
Memorial Hall will be used as a dining hall for the first time in many years when President Conant, ex-President Lowell, Governor Salt-onstall, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and many others dine and wine the Yard Police mentor...
...recognition of fishermen's and trawlers' services to the nation (and in part confirmation of Germany's contention that they are combatants), George VI last week reviewed a contingent of them, salt-caked in their sea boots and ragged overcoats, on the docks at Devonport Torpedo School. He bestowed no medals because, said the Admiralty: "You'd have to give medals to nearly every one of them-and what do they want with medals anyway?" The King boarded a trawler, dirtied his gloves fingering depth-charge apparatus and trawling gear. Later he helped receive a delegation...